Marcos R. Vieira      Academic Mailing Address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering Winston Chung Hall (formerly EBU II), room 363 Bourns College of Engineering University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 Office Phone: +1 951 827 2838    Resume:

Prior to joining UCR, I received my M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science (2004) from University of São Paulo at São Carlos and my B.S. Degree in Computer Engineering (2001) from Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.

Research Interests

• Metric, Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Databases
• Query Processing Techniques
• Data Streaming Systems
• Data Structures and Indexing Techniques
• Data Mining Techniques

Work Experience

• Research Intern at the Distributed Streaming Systems Group - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (summer 2011)
• Intern at the Geodatabase Department - Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Redlands, CA (summer 2010 to spring 2011)
• Research Intern at the Data Mining and User Modeling Research Group - Telefónica Research, Madrid, Spain (summer 2009)
• Research Intern at the Data Management Department - AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ (summer 2008)

Refereed Publications [DBLP]

• DivDB: A System for Diversifying Query Results 
  M. Vieira, H. Razente, M. Barioni, M. Hadjieleftheriou, D. Srivastava, C. Traina Jr, V. Tsotras.
  Proc. of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) [Demo], 4(12), 2011
• FlexTrack: A System for Querying Flexible Patterns in Trajectory Databases 
  M. Vieira, P. Bakalov, V. Tsotras.
  12th Int'l Symp. on Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) [Demo], 2011
• On Query Result Diversification 
  M. Vieira, H. Razente, M. Barioni, M. Hadjieleftheriou, D. Srivastava, C. Traina Jr, V. Tsotras.
  27th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2011
• Complex Motion Pattern Queries for Trajectories 
  M. Vieira, V. Tsotras.
  IEEE ICDE Ph.D. Workshop, 2011
• MAMView: A Framework for Visualization of Metric Trees 
  M. Vieira, F. Chino, C. Traina Jr., A. Traina.
  25th Brazilian Symp. on Databases (SBBD) [Demo], 2010
• Querying Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Mobile Phone-Call Databases 
  M. Vieira, E. Frias-Martinez, P. Bakalov, V. Frias-Martinez, V. Tsotras.
  11th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2010
• Characterizing Dense Urban Areas from Mobile Phone-Call Data: Discovery and Social Dynamics 
  M. Vieira, E. Frias-Martinez, N. Oliver, V. Frias-Martinez.
  2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Social Computing (SocialCom), 2010
• Querying Trajectories Using Flexible Patterns 
  M. Vieira, P. Bakalov, V. Tsotras.
  13th Int'l Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2010
• DBM-Tree: A Dynamic Metric Access Method Sensitive to Local Density Data 
  M. Vieira, F. Chino, C. Traina Jr., A. Traina.
  J. of Information and Data Management (JIDM), 2010 [invited paper]
• A Visual Framework to Understand Similarity Queries and Explore Data in Metric Access Method 
  M. Vieira, F. Chino, C. Traina Jr., A. Traina.
  Int'l J. Business Intelligence and Data Mining (IJBIDM), 2010
• On-Line Discovery of Flock Patterns in Spatio-Temporal Data 
  M. Vieira, P. Bakalov, V. Tsotras.
  17th ACM Int'l Symp. on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 2009
• Boosting XML Filtering Through a Scalable FPGA-based Architecture 
  A. Mitra, M. Vieira, P. Bakalov, W. Najjar, V. Tsotras.
  4th Conf. on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2009
• The Omni-Family of All-Purpose Access Methods: A Simple and Effective Way to Make Similarity Search More Efficient 
  C. Traina Jr., R. Filho, A. Traina, M. Vieira, C. Faloutsos.
  Very Large Data Bases J. (VLDBJ), 2007
• Boosting k-Nearest Neighbor Queries Estimating Suitable Query Radii 
  M. Vieira, C. Traina Jr., A. Traina, A. Arantes, C. Faloutsos.
  19th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2007
• Efficient Processing of Complex Similarity Queries in RDBMS Through Query Rewriting 
  C. Traina Jr., A. Traina, M. Vieira, A. Arantes, C. Faloutsos.
  15th ACM Int'l Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2006
• DBM-Tree: Trading Height-Balancing for Performance in Metric Access Methods 
  M. Vieira, C. Traina Jr., F. Chino, A. Traina.
  J. of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS), 2006
• MAMView: A Visual Tool for Exploring and Understanding Metric Access Methods 
  F. Chino, M. Vieira, A. Traina, C. Traina Jr.
  20th ACM Symp. on Applied Computing (SAC), 2005
• Efficient Algorithms to Execute Complex Similarity Queries in RDBMS 
  A. Arantes, M. Vieira, C. Traina Jr., A. Traina.
  J. of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS), 2004
• DBM-Tree: A Dynamic Metric Access Method Sensitive to Local Density Data 
  M. Vieira, C. Traina Jr., F. Chino, A. Traina.
  19th Brazilian Symp. on Databases (SBBD), 2004
• Similarity Selection Operators for Relational Database Management Systems 
  A. Arantes, M. Vieira, C. Traina Jr., A. Traina.
  18th Brazilian Symp. on Databases (SBBD), 2003
• The Fractal Dimension Making Similarity Queries More Efficient 
  A. Arantes, M. Vieira, A. Traina, C. Traina Jr.
  2nd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Fractals and Self-Similarity in Data Mining: Issues and Approaches, 2003

If any paper is not electronically available here, send me an email

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